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by ventana 22 hours ago
Besides other fun things about this license, using it effectively forbids Google employees to send patches to your projects. [1]

[1]: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/patching#f...

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> The Hippocratic License is an ethical software license created to ensure that open source software is not used for harmful purposes, aligning with human rights principles

The paragraph doesn’t really explain the rationale for forbidding WTFPL and even Public Domain and CC0? They’re all fine for commercial use, aren’t they?
Only a guess, but it could be because WTFPL is effectively very similar to having no license at all from what I gather
I thought they were basically BSD/MIT but even less annoying.